The Danger of Identity Theft

Any business owner or even every single person should be well-conscious of the current state of identity theft. And we all must know how important it is to to protect your customers and your own business from fraud to maintain its well-known reputation and stable development.

What is identity theft?

Identity theft is defined as the fraud of someone to make money from using your confidential document or illegally enter any transaction under your identity. An example can be the “credit card cloning”. The culprit may use someone else’ information and apply for credit cards, bank accounts to buy items through the Internet, One other of the most common identity theft cases is tax fraud and scams that may be greatly damaging under any tax season no matter how safe and secured your personal info is. Specifically, the identity thieves use made-up Social Security Numbers (SNN) randomly and file the tax forms to try to claim any possible return. And sadly, the chances of being the random victim can be you.

The consequences can be terrific and time-consuming for anyone, which which can lead to nonstop amount of unknown debts, bankruptcy, etc. Even worse, solving your identity theft case or reversing the harm from the fraud is also as troublesome as it can go for years to settle.

Facts of Identity Theft

Frank Agagnale once said, ‘the police can't protect everyone. Individuals should be more mindful and instructed about identity fraud or theft. You should be a little bit wiser, and smarter; plus, nothing is wrong with being skeptical. We live in a world where if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, they will eventually.’ And I believe this always stays true. Up until now, there have been over 8,513,000 identity theft victims worldwide, which is happening every two seconds. Identity theft is a growing serious issue in the United States which has risen alarmingly over the last decades. Another surprising fact is that currently, medical sector has been on top of those that have data stolen by identity thieves since five years ago. Hence, protecting your own health insurance is as crucial as your SSN.

How do you protect your identity from being theft?

This question must be constantly asked right after the frightening facts above have been shown.Fortunately, there are many easy and effective ways to protect yourself. First of all, having the  best paper shredders  can be the foremost solution to dispose of any sensitive information and that info will stay safe and secured within your organization. Other possible ways can be regularly checking your credit reports to let your bank know about any suspecting spending amount, strengthening your passwords and well securing any of your contact information or important accounts. Personally, I would recommend that you change your passwords for any highly-secured accounts every 6 months. Also, you should be smart and wary in using social media because there have been plenty of scams online. Social media has become tremendously so popular that even a company will look at the profiles of their job candidates through those media sites. Hence, people tend to upload most of their personal data but forget that they themselves make it easier for scammers to duplicate their information.

By implementing these steps, any top secret documents such as employee files, social security numbers, banking details, medial insurance information, and addresses cannot be stolen and frauded. If you can secure yourself first, the chance of the information being stolen can be surely eliminated. And your company can avoid being sued for violating regulations on information protection. Likewise, Bill Nelson once said, “If we don’t act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become the victims of identity theft”.

Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.

How to Build an Online Business that Actually Makes Money?

The internet is the hottest ways to earn moneyonline these days. Whether you are on a mission of finding a new source of income or just want to add some more bucks to your wallet as a side gig, the internet can offer a variety of solutions for you to choose from. But, on a serious note, if one does not think of it as just a side-gig or new income source, it is a top niche to build online businesses.

An online business has become an unparalleled opportunity to run a business worldwide with only a laptop and an internet connection. In the present days, about 2.5 billion people log onto the internet every minute. This is great in the sense of the opportunity for income, but negative in the sense that online business has become an advanced day gold rush.

There are many cheat sheets available online, manipulating people to adopt them for the sake of earning money quickly. Many of you must have noticed that social media accounts can be downright depressing with all the over-hyped ads. Selecting whom to learn from can be difficult to start an online business.

Therefore, here are five simple steps that can encourage you to devise th best strategies to plunder the online wealth without any support of cheat sheets:

1.      Focus

It simply means figuring out who you want to serve and how you deliver value to your targeted audience. It means “focus” can help you where you are instead of following all that cheat sheets or wrong tricks.

There is a plenty of information available online and so many entrepreneurs fall victim to information overload. But, if you apply 10% of the knowledge of what you have or what you understand from the right online source, you would make progress building your business.

2.      Fortify an Audience

It is the main intent for business to be boosted up. Creating a beautiful website with all the right plugins, opt-in boxes, and widgets is of no use if you don’t have an audience. So, here are efficient ways to build an audience quickly:

·         Be a Guest on a Podcast: Radio Guest List will deliver to your inbox a list of shows looking for your expertise.

·         Post Guest Blogs: There are many blogs that get millions of visitors every month. All you need to learn is effective content marketing strategies considering content as the king.

·         Acquire Exposure from Large Author Sites: Search for the highly-authorized sites like Huffington Post and write for them. Through such sites, you can get exposure to millions of potential leads and customers. They also build authority, enhance your social media presence, and boost sales.

3.      Build a Monetization Plan

Once you start getting exposure, it’s time to generate income through a plan. A content strategy is always needed for a website that aligns with a promotion schedule. Your plan should include the products and services, you are offering to your customers. Utilize your exposure and content plan to sell premium offerings and enhance business growth.

4.      Test and Refine

Once you have implemented a plan, study what works and what doesn’t. Take online help and try different offers. Don’t rely completely on online advice; take help from the analysis made by your plans and exposure. At the end, refine your process and perk up the parts of your plan that aren’t working.

5.      Launch and Scale

At this point, you have to build 1000 followers for your business with an effective growth. Whenever your promotions give a big hit at the end of the month, launch them with a bang. This means you have joint partnerships, launch bonuses, and affiliate partners. Each launch should generate serious revenue for your business. So, it is a matter of scaling and reinvesting.

Starting and boosting an online business is not simple. There is a lot of competition due to which it takes time and tremendous focus. But, once it goes in the right direction, the results are fruitful and encouraging enough to make money online.

Apple Becomes The Most Valuable Company

Apple has taken their first position in the world as it had lost many of its rankings after the Steve Jobs death tragedy.

Since 2012 Apple was able to grow from $36 billion to $76 billion within ten months as shown by the the Interbrand's 2012 global brand rankings. Since the 2012 growth Apple has been holding second position after Coca-Cola. This has been a very great improvement by Apple as they had shown a very good growth that year as they moved from position eight to position two.

In 2014 Apple was able to take over the first position once again after the negative critics the company had as it had a massive growth from $76 billion in 2012 to a staggering $$124.2 billion in 2014. Since then Apple has been holding the position as the most valuable company until Google stepped in the beginning of 2016 due to the bad financial reports that were reported by Apple and surprisingly Apple was able to reclaim their position. The quick bost in the company value has been boosted by the announcement of the Iphone 5se and the Iphone Air 3 , which had rapidly increased the share demand.

What are your thoughts, do you think that Apple will continue hold position number one despite the presence of its rivals Google, Microsoft and Facebook? Please leave your opinions on the comment box below.

Partnering For Good Successful Business

If you run a small business, blog or online store a strategic partnership is simply what your business needs. But before you happen to make conclusions with any company or partnership you have to first evaluate how you as a co-operation or an individual can benefit from the business. I am sharing this information to help you do well in business partnerships which will also boost your activity and revenue.

Why Should you do a partnership?

Business is done best when you have an extra hand that will boost you revenue and impact simply because a good business partnerships allow you as a businessman and blogger to be able to reach higher business levels that you wouldn't have achieved on your own influence.
By having a good business partnership you increase your power in that particular industry as you will be sharing exchanging different skills in a more mutually productive way. This means that you as a business can gain access to certain levels of the market that you wouldn't have reached which means a major increase in the business revenue.
Finding a Perfect Business Partner
Finding a good partner in business is what no body can value or measure as out there can be good partners and also bad partners who can really disturb the quality of a business just for the sake of selfish desires. This means that as an individual you should have the ability to make good decisions that can help prosper your business.
Eventually as an individual you might lack a certain business skill which somebody might know best, the lack of the skill will cause your blog or business to lack at some point and the finding a partner will improve your business reducing the gap within the business.
Finding a good partner is surely a difficult thing that anybody can guarantee but by getting yourself deep into a certain business industry you will meet people with brilliant ideas and skills in that certain market you might be in, there is a lot more that one can do such as attending business workshops, participating in Forums, attending business conferences and seminars.

Ensuring A Good Business Partnership

Keeping a business partnership stable will require you a certain skills and duties because most business partnerships usually dont succeed as parters might not agree on certain conditions. As business person in a certain business, it is best that you improve your partnership by deciding roles on which each individual should carry out. I probably recommend the partnership to do the below mentioned points to ensure business success.

• Vision - The vision of any business or partnership should be made known to all partners to insure successful partnership and business.

• Partner Roles - As I have mentioned earlier, in a partnership there should be roles and there shouldn't be one who will carry out most of roles compared to the other because that might boil your business partnership.

• Shares - It might be tempting to have 50% share as your partner but to give you advice that is really not a good Idea because there should be at least one authoritative voice in the partnership which will ensure that decisions are taken accordingly and productively.

• Responsibilies - Responsibility is the most important aspect of business.

Avoiding Business Partnership Falls

Business Partnerships can be drafted successfully as I have mentioned in the above paragraphs above but that is not enough when humans are involved because that can drive a number of emotions and ego's that can affect your business negatively. I prefer that the business associates should draw up a written agreements can help solve the business pitfalls that are faced by many partnerships.
The drawn up agreement should include some important things such as Roles and Responsibilies that each partner will hold in the partnership.

Napoleon Hill Money Making Secrets For Millionaires

when looking at the world as you know it today you may notice that there is an endless amount of opportunities out there for anybody that is ready to get hold of them. I started blogging earlier in 2014 as a hobby because I normally did not have many things in which I could spend most of my time into until I started a blog which has grown into one of the best in world as this blogs gets tons of visitors from around the world. I want to share some of the secrets that have created many billionaires around the world, the secrets that have motivated the likes of Mark Zuckerburg and Pete Cashmore into achieving the best possible achievements that one may acquire as an individual.

If you pay attention to the information that I am sharing with you right now I am really convinced that you will make more money than you ever thought. there is too much information on wealth creation out there and most of it is nothing but crap because they are simply in the business of making money and not returning with something useful to help an average person prosper and I really dont know why do they hide such important information, but I will share with you a glimpse of it to help you succeed in life into being a multimillionaire or a billionaire depending on  your commitment.

Napoleon Hill was one of the people who were privileged to work for the worlds richest man Andrew Carnegie who was the founder of US steel, who later taught Napoleon Hill the success secrets that I am going to share with you on the list below.

• Have a Dream and a Burning desire to achieve it
  
  
  
  This is the difficulty that most people are having difficulty in getting to solve as most people tend to look at their salary before their can start dreaming about success, such dreams are not usually successful because the subconscious mind knows that they have no faith to achieve such success. unsuccessful people always ask themselves "HOW?"  but winners and successful people never think about the HOW first, they always dream first and have a burning desire for its achievement
  
  The most important money making secret is to define your dream and have a burning desire for its achievement, and once you are driven by the burning desire you will make it in life as a success.
• You have to feel good when you think about your dream 
  
  Most people out in the world feel bad about their dreams because they dont have it, you have to feel good about your dream even if you dont have it for example if I was at a seminar with you and rolled your name out of a hat and say you have just won $50,000 and a trip to Italy, then probably you will be happy even though you have not received the money or travelled the destination. Telling you that you have won will not change anything as I am telling but definitely your feeling will change even though nothing has changed in reality.
  
  You might have a dream now but that doesnt mean you will achieve it now but there is certainty that you will achieve your dream in a certain amount of time even though you have not achieved it yet.
• Unsuccessful People are surrounded by dream stealer's
  
  Dream Stealers are the reason why most people arent successful in life all because of people who are always there to discourage them from achieving their dreams, these people have fear fear of the possibility to financial freedom, dream stealers could be your friends, family, spouse and any other person that makes you believe that you wont make on your dream. Successful people are surrounded by people who support and believe in their dreams no matter how big the dreams are.
  
  If you want to be successful in life and make more money you have to associate yourself with like minded people who will pull in for you, you can do this by developing friendships with like minded people who are success driven as you are.
• The words you speak will determine your success
  
  What you say determines your success which is the reason why most people get hung by their tongue. unsuccessful people talk negative about themselves and just by doing that they hang their own lives with their tongue meaning they kill their dreams because Words Have Power. You must learn to speak like successful people as they speak positive about themselves
   
• Think about what you want
  
  This was the secret which was discovered by Earl Nightingale the author of "The Strangest Secret" a novel which reveals that You become what you think about most of the time. this has been proven to be true as most people become what they think the most. my word to you is that you must think about your dreams all the time and have the burning desire to achieve those dreams.
• You have to read books
  
  Leaders are always readers which means that to become a good leader you must earn as much motivation and wisdom from reading books because today the world has been corrupted as most people spend time watching Tv, reading magazines, reading newspapers and spending time with dream stealers who will will harden your your attitude and make focus less in achieving your dreams, we develop negative thinking which develops negative transmisssion of frequency which causes Negative things in your life. as an individual willing to succeed reading books should be used to help position you in the way in which you are supposed to think.

It is easy to become a multimillionaire, you just have to dream about something and follow your dreams and trust me you will indeed become a successful somebody.

The Impact of Social Media on eCommerce -Infographic

Well ecommerce has become the most trending way of which people use to buy and sell products online in which the owner of Amazon, the worlds leading online retailer has been able to increase his wealth from $33bn to over $50bn in over 6 months. as bloggers we got to anticipate such growth on on the ecommerce market as it is taking the world by storm.

I have received this awesome infographic from Vebology and I have found it suitable for as I have noticed recently that this blog has been known mostly for ecommerce due to the quality of material that we produce for our readers. Running an ecommerce site that makes money is very difficult for many bloggers including me at the start as I really faced a lot of difficulty with getting people into buying my products until I used Facebook and Twitter to get more clients to purchasing my products.

I do recommend many bloggers out there not to quite ecommerce but should look forward into social media marking because out there are many people that have been waiting for a product that you are selling but the problem with them is that they didn't bother to search for, As a blogger should always see an opportunity to profit on any market because generally the demand is much more that the supply.

Besides advertising social media is the best way in which one should use to drive traffic to their site, maybe advertising might be seem as the best but telling you the truth advertising cannot withstand the force of social media as big sites like Mashable, Techcruch  including Ajaxsurf have seen social media as the best way in which we can market ourselves. The world has been changed by social media and today I tell you that social media will change the way you work for the better.

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I do recommend that you share that this post to as many people as possible because it is the best even though the credits are not to this blog but I believe that this infographic on the the impact of social media on ecommerce will boost the traffic that you get from your ecommerce site and more sales you will make.